Changes to the law were recommended after the 2019 Christchurch shootings and sped up after a supermarket knife attack earlier this month
New Zealand has passed a law that makes plotting a terrorist attack a crime, fixing a legal loophole that was exposed earlier this month by a violent knife attack.
The new law had been months in the planning but was hurried through parliament after an extremist inspired by the Islamic State group grabbed a knife at an Auckland supermarket on 3 September and began stabbing shoppers. He wounded five while two others were injured in the chaos. All are still recovering.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/30/new-zealand-makes-plotting-a-terrorist-attack-a-fixing-legal-loophole
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